- Even on the early Saturday morning of the Pentecost weekend, patience is required at the Gotthard Tunnel.
- In front of the Gotthard Tunnel between Beckenried and Göschenen, cars are piled up for over nineteen kilometers. The loss of time is sometimes over 3 hours, as the TCS reports on the short message service X.
- On Friday evening, the Gotthard was closed in both directions after an accident.
- There was also a kilometer-long line of cars in front of the south portal heading north.
The journey south requires further patience early on Saturday morning. The cars are piled up for over sixteen kilometers in front of the Gotthard north portal between Beckenried and Göschenen/UR, as the Touring Club Switzerland TCS reports on the online platform X.
Due to an accident in the tunnel, a three-kilometer-long column also formed between Quinto and Airolo on Friday evening. The waiting time there was up to 30 minutes, the TCS announced on X. The traffic jam was now six kilometers long.
The Gotthard road tunnel was closed for around two hours after 1 p.m. due to the accident. According to a report from the Ticino cantonal police, a car driver driving south had crossed into the oncoming lane. There was a head-on collision with a northbound car. A total of three car occupants were seriously injured in the accident.
12 kilometer long sheet metal column
On Friday afternoon, cars were queued for kilometers in front of the north portal between Erstfeld and Göschenen in the canton of Uri. The twelve kilometer long metal column meant a waiting time of up to two hours.
Legend:
Drone shot of the traffic jam on Friday in front of the Gotthard north portal.
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Because of all the snow, the Gotthard pass road as an alternative to the Gotthard road tunnel cannot be opened to traffic on Pentecost, unlike other years.
The Göschenen and Wassen motorway entrances were closed so that drivers could not avoid the traffic jam.
Last Ascension weekend, the journey to the south and back had already become a tough test of patience. Columns of up to 16 kilometers long formed in front of both tunnel portals over the long weekend.